Internal Drive & Drive Enclosure: Cheap Storage

I just recently extended my external Hard Drive capacity by 250 gigabytes. It cost me $130. Try to beat that deal with a Lacie or something similar. The key – and this is really a note for relative newbies out there – is to buy an internal hard drive and a drive enclosure. I found a smokin deal on a Maxtor 250 gigabyte drive for $99, and a $30 enclosure. Sweet!

A catch you may run into, if you’ve not done this kind of thing before, is that you’ll have to format it to run as an Apple journaled file system. Doing this is simple enough:

Fire up Disk Utility from your Applications/Utilities folder

Connect your new external hard drive

Select the drive in the left pane of Disk Utility

Choose the ERASE tab

Select the option to fully erase the drive

Make sure you’ve chosen the Apple Journaled File System (extended)

Let it run.

You’re done!

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